Transforming the U. S. Military's Foreign Language, Cultural Awareness, and Regional Expertise Capabilities

Transforming the U. S. Military's Foreign Language, Cultural Awareness, and Regional Expertise Capabilities
Author: United States House of Representatives
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781697509458

Transforming the U.S. military's foreign language, cultural awareness, and regional expertise capabilities: hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, hearing held September 10, 2008.

Transforming the U.s. Military's Foreign Language, Cultural Awareness, and Regional Expertise Capabilities

Transforming the U.s. Military's Foreign Language, Cultural Awareness, and Regional Expertise Capabilities
Author: United States Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978177031

Transforming the U.S. military's foreign language, cultural awareness, and regional expertise capabilities: hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, hearing held September 10, 2008.

Military Training: Continued Actions Needed to Guide DoD's Efforts to Improve Language Skills and Regional Proficiency

Military Training: Continued Actions Needed to Guide DoD's Efforts to Improve Language Skills and Regional Proficiency
Author: Sharon L. Pickup
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1437935702

Today, and in the foreseeable future, military operations require U.S. personnel to work alongside multinational partners and among local populations. The DoD has placed a greater emphasis on transforming language and regional proficiency capabilities, which includes cultural awareness. This testimony summarizes recommendations on DoD's efforts to develop language skills and regional proficiency and the steps DoD has taken to implement these prior recommendations. Specifically, the testimony addresses the extent to which DoD has: (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts; and (2) obtained the information it needs to identify capability gaps and assess risk.

Transforming Postsecondary Foreign Language Teaching in the United States

Transforming Postsecondary Foreign Language Teaching in the United States
Author: Janet Swaffar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-07-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401791597

This volume addresses critical challenges and issues facing foreign language departments in colleges and universities across the U.S. It presents the insights of individuals who have built or are in the process of building foreign language curricula during a major transition period in postsecondary institutions. The authors of this volume come from various language departments and institutional experience from across the U. S., including private and public postsecondary foreign language teachers, researchers and administrators. The chapters address issues and provide templates for curricular change at all learning levels. The five sections of this book explore: Changing Perceptions about Foreign Language Learning; The Case for a Multi-literacy FL Curriculum in Concept and Assessment Praxis; Curricular Transformations: Historical Hurdles and Faculty Heuristics; Rethinking the Graduate Curriculum; Foreign Languages' Integration into the Interdisciplinary University. “This thought-provoking and timely volume addresses the question of how historic and current disciplinary, institutional and political conditions affect curricular transformation in collegiate foreign language programs. Responding to the issues raised in the 2007 MLA Report, this collection of nine essays presents a diversity of curricular models and approaches from different theoretical perspectives focusing on the integration of language and content. The book will undoubtedly be of great interest to a broad audience, such as foreign language educators, curriculum designers, administrators, graduate students and researchers.” Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Yale College, CT, USA.

Closing the Language Gap

Closing the Language Gap
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: